Bloglessly jumping on all the bandwagons over here

Hi! Did you miss me? The neverending First Time Home Buying Saga of 2009/2010 has finally ended (house, hooray!), and between that and a supercute/superdemonic almost-two-year-old who is intent on consuming any energy I could use to blog (or brush my hair) I have been a sad, sad blogging partner. But I have been losing the meats over here, I’m down 21 pounds since January, and also jumping on all the bandwagons. I went and bought chia seeds (which I have still not actually eaten), and I thought that was an expensive bandwagon until The Vitamix.

I told Sweetie I wanted one for my birthday, never expecting that I would ever get one, and then I got one for Mother’s Day! I forgot that he was already making a shake every day for breakfast, so really it was for him too. It is the best $500 blender I have ever had. I have used it a lot already, and it is so impressive. It seemed to get a little angry when I made chocolate avocado pudding without soaking the dates first, but then it calmed down. Next time I will be less impatient and soak the dates. I don’t want it to break mysteriously like its east coast counterpart. Every morning I make Heather’s optimized bright green smoothie for breakfast, it is delicious. The Vitamix is also great for terrorizing toddlers with.

I also have my own bandwagon now, an organic CSA produce box that gets delivered on Fridays. It delights me to no end. I might have squealed this morning when I checked this week’s list of stuff online and saw that we’ll get corn, peaches, and apricots. I love that I have no control over what’s in there, that I just have to figure out what to do with it. I have a deal with myself that if I have to throw anything away, then I have to go down to the next size down box. I started with the biggest “Monster Mix” size, because that’s how I roll, and also, hello, we are vegan. One of Bryan’s friends referred us to this CSA and he said that just the regular size was more than you could eat in a week, and maybe that’s true if your dinner plate is piled high with meats and cheeses and 3 broccoli florets. So far, so good, nothing has been thrown away from rot yet in two boxes. I do have 4 grapefruits (soon to be 6) that I don’t know what to do with, since neither of us like grapefruit that much. I think I might make marmalade. Last night I made some whole wheat pasta and the hurry up alfredo sauce from Vegan Yum Yum and added roasted asparagus and a baby lettuces salad. The baby teeny lettuces were so cute! I also roasted some delicious beets but they were taking too long to wait for so I ate them at 3:30 am when I woke up to move a small child out of my bed. You’ll have to imagine their lovely color on the plate.